On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

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Any Chinese want to get immortalized in Internet history?

And deleted with a bullet, for which they'd have to pay. That's insane.

The creations of the majority of presently active virii/ worms are not attributable to individuals. :)

That's true. However, you can be immortalized even if your identity isn't known; you can be known under a nym "unknown creator of the StegoWorm". Besides, even Unknown Soldiers sometimes get statues. :)

But:! you will stop all the people who are now using stego .. all two of them .. their stego will be corrupted

Only the ones who use it to store documents in images on read-write media. The files in transit and on read-only wouldn't be corrupted. Speaking of storing data... the best for stego are big not-too-compressed or uncompressed files. Occassionally playing in a garage band or having a DV camera could be a good cover for having disks full of the only copies of WAV and video files, where no "virgin" versions are available for comparison for bit-level changes. Decreasing prices of DV camcorders could be helpful here.